ARLA/CLUSTER: Deep Space Sculpture spacecraft ARTSAT2:DESPATCH (FO-81) deixou de ser escutada

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

DESPATCH Ground Station operations end

Tama Art University Ground Station has decided to conclude attempts to
receive the ARTSAT2:DESPATCH spacecraft, amateur radio callsign JQ1ZNN

On December 3, 2014 the Deep Space Sculpture spacecraft ARTSAT2:DESPATCH
(FO-81) was put into an Earth escape orbit as a piggyback payload on the
H-IIA F26 launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.

The DESPATCH CW transmitter on 437.325 MHz was powered by batteries which
had an estimated lifetime of 27 days.

Radio amateurs around the world tracked the signal from the spacecraft as
it headed out into deep space. The furthest two reports of reception
occurred when the spacecraft was 4.7 million km from Earth, far beyond what
the team expected and a record communication distance between two amateur
radio stations.

Read more at
http://amsat-uk.org/2015/01/03/despatch-operations-end/
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